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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9277
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health

Eurobarometer survey shows gaps in Europeans' knowledge about HIV infection

Brussels, 02/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - A Eurobarometer survey, which has just been published by the European Commission, stresses that the vast majority of the citizens of the Union (95%) know that it is possible to contract the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from contact with an infected needle, contaminated blood or from sexual intercourse. However, the survey goes on to reveal that that are a great many misunderstandings. Only 40% of those asked knew that it was not possible to...

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